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It applies even more outside of a courtroom. Most people get information via very agenda-driven news articles, and not having "making sense of weird situations

by yuliyp 5y ago

It applies even more outside of a courtroom. Most people get information via very agenda-driven news articles, and not having "making sense of weird situations" as their day job, they're even more likely to be misled than judges. At least a court has lots of rules built in to try and provide some amount of fairness to both sides in a debate. The political and public sphere has no such rules, making it even more vulnerable to such railroading.

topspin 5y ago
"It applies even more outside of a courtroom." Perhaps inside the heads of some. In the actual external world people make decisions based on incomplete information, first impression, secondhand observation, self serving bias and other imperfect influences. Neither you nor I will live to see this reality 'corrected.'
- yuliyp 5y ago
  Yes, that's why corporations, even the most perfectly good ones in the world, still value their ability to keep things private.
  - topspin 5y ago
    That is also why, when one witnesses a corporation hide that which was previously observable, we may suspect malice.